As house price growth slows to a halt following the Brexit vote, Bath is one of the areas seeing fast rising prices.

Bath and North East Somerset saw prices jump 8.3% between June 2016, when the average price was £308,409, and March 2017, when prices averaged £333,930 - one of the biggest increases in the UK.

The increase is part of a longer term trend for rising prices in the area, one that has continued rather than slowed down or reversed as it has in other parts of the UK.

House prices in the UK were 4.1% higher than the previous year in March, at an average price of £215,848.

However, much of the annual growth is from the months before the Brexit vote, as prices across the UK have mostly stagnated since June. The average price in June was £215,182, meaning prices have only risen by 0.3%, or £666, in nine months. In comparison, in the first six months of 2016, house prices rose by 4.7%, or £9,725.

Across the UK, prices have risen in 278 local authorities since the Brexit vote, but fallen in 111, or 29%.

City of London, (down 13.7%,) Eilean Siar in Scotland,( down 9.7%) and Aberdeen, (down 8.9%) have seen the biggest falls over the nine months, although areas with low numbers of sales will see more volatile prices.

The Orkney Islands, (up 14.8%), and Kensington and Chelsea, (up 14.1%), have seen the biggest price increases over the period.

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